Enhancing a web-based community: the case of SIG-GLUE

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-130

  Antonellis, Ioannis ^a   Bouras, Christos ^a   Kapoulas, Vaggelis ^a   Poulopoulos, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

content management system; game based learning; life long learning; special interest group; web community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956049333     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2006.008619     Document Type: Article

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